Could not empty trash when disk is full

[Ananth P]

Binary package hint: nautilus

My hard disk was full. I tried to free some space by emptying trash through nautilus. I got a progress bar which didn't show any progress and disappeared. No files were deleted. I tried it a few times like a robot (just trying to make the bug report more interesting), I got the same result.

Emptying the trash with the trash icon near the bottom right panel showed more promising behavior. The progress bar indeed looked to deleting files. But the result it same. Nothing got cleaned.

Finally I used commandline to delete the trash.

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I had transmission running at that time, which complained of disk being full. I had scribus editor with a small ruby program which complained about the failure while saving the file.

Please let me know in case you need additional information.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091027)
Package: nautilus 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686

[Ananth P (ananthp)]

Work around: rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Hello raguanu, could you still reproduce this with latest Ubuntu (Karmic) ?

[Ananth P (ananthp)]

Hello Pedro Villavicencio, Yes. I have experienced it with Ubuntu Karmic. It was up-to-date at that time. I have about 20% free space now. I don't see any issue with emptying trash now. Not sure if I have this problem now if the disk is almost full. I will keep an eye on this.

[Ananth P (ananthp)]

Oops, The info I just posted is wrong. I have ubuntu both on my laptop and desktop. Laptop has Jaunty. Desktop has Karmic. So I got confused. Sorry about that.

I have only seen this problem on Jaunty (laptop). I haven't seen this issue on Karmic yet. I am yet to run out of space. On my laptop, when I move to Karmic, which will happen soon, I will check if this problem exists. I run of space quite often.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

ok thanks, please keep us posted.

[Hilmy (hilmyh)]

I have karmic fully updated with only 50M left in my Home folder. I could not empty the trash using the trash bin icon or the warning pop-up that appears. It appears to be deleting but nothing is deleted. I had to use command line.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks both, will look upstream.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603478

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Has this ever occurred again lately? The upstream ticket does not have any reaction from the upstream devs or any additional information, either.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

could this be bug 422012?